Subj : Re: Cannot umount any device, Mounting works ok
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Michael Hearne
Date : Tue Oct 26 2004 06:32 pm

Borys Musielak wrote:
> Strange problem. I cannot unmount any device (floppy, cdrom, nfs share) 
> being a regular user. Mounting all of them still works OK.
> I'm in groups:
> - disk,
> - floppy
> - cdrom
> The directory permissions are allright I guess.
> Umounting doesn't work neither in konsole nor on kde desktop.
> Umounting as root goes ok with no problem.
> Checked my settings from debian and all seem the same, although it all 
> works great there..
> What is the trick with that? The distro is Yoper (lots of setting
> are Slackware like here)
> 
> 
Adding yourself to the "wheel" group may help solve your problem. 
Then, from the CLI, type "visudo" and add the wheel group (with or 
without password, as you like) and you will be able to do many 
more things as a user. Remember, that when you are in the CLI, you 
can't umount a directory that you are actually in. IOW, if you are 
in /mnt/cdrom, you can't umount /cdrom. You have to at least fall 
back to /mnt or your /home directory.

Check /etc/fstab and see if your cdrom is "supermount". If so, 
changing it to "auto" will cause the cdrom to unmount whenever it 
is empty.

HTH

Michael

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